﻿Catholic Internet Guide: Join the conversation

In last week’s In Focus, writer Sarah Reinhard detailed dozens of amazing, faithful websites in “Untangling the Catholic Web.” She gave you her favorite Catholic blogs, news sources, sites for apologetics and podcasts and much more.

After we put the story on OSV.com, you began flooding the comments section with your own favorites, providing us with many more resources for building and supporting our faith. To see all of these reader submissions, and to send us to your own personal favorite sites, go to the story online at http://osv.cm/1i6npqv.

Life-changing priests

Your feature prompts me to tell you of three priests who changed my life: Jesuit Father Gene Shaw, Marquette University, who taught me to read for knowledge and to love learning; Father Fred Westendorf, Fort Wayne, Indiana, who taught me that men see Christ best in other men; and Father Ralph Larson, Fort Wayne, who taught me that Christ’s love is the giving of yourself for the good of others. Only to Jesus and Mary do I owe more than I owe to those three priests of God.

— Otto M. Bonahoom, via email

Beware of ‘false teachers’

It is truly sad that religious communities of women in the U.S. are opening themselves to false concepts that “lead to fundamental errors regarding Church doctrine.” While freedom of speech is an American value, the Catholic Church has a hierarchy, instituted by Jesus Christ. Jesus also has words for teachers of children (cf. Mt 18:5, Lk 17:1-2) and this OSV article illustrates the fact that today, especially, parents have particular reason to be concerned that their children not fall under the influence of “false teachers” (2 Pt 2:1).

— Pamela T. Haines, St. Petersburg, Florida

Blessed by visit

My husband and I took a day to visit the shrine recently and were overwhelmed by what we saw! The volunteers were so helpful, telling us the story behind the construction of the shrine and St. John the Evangelist Church. We walked the Way of the Cross, guided by audio boxes at each station. It was a blessed day, and we are encouraging everyone we know to visit the shrine.